Zack Snyder to Reimagine John Carpenter's Escape From New York

Wintersong Games44

Watch. Somehow, it's going to be poor people's fault that New York is now a prison city, and the people that are in there deserve to be in there because they're not super cool and tight Übermensches that never take handouts. Oh and there will be not-so-subtle anti-queer propaganda.

Moon Titan 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦31

Escape from Florida would make a lot more sense in 2026

Shay29

I wish they would leave John Carpenter's works alone, they were done right the first time.

👁Pooka😉Boo🫵18

Agreed..... There's only one Snake Plissken, and I heard he was dead!

bluethru.bsky.social14

I was an extra in the original. I squirmed my way to the front so I’d be seen in a big scene. Scene started, lots of planned chaos, director yells, ‘CUT!!! Who’s that idiot (me) ruining this scene?? Get the hell out of here!’ I like to say I was directed by John Carpenter.

Cat Toyz in the Attic11

Why not just do, “The Fast and The Furious Infinity Marvel Universe Unleashed” instead?

bodacious958

Idiots have no imagination these days.They just want to remake and keep remaking movies that have been classics for years.Thinking they can outdo it, and so far, they haven't

Matthew_DS98

I'm a "no" Because let's stop doing remakes, shall we?

Jim Treanor6

What Hollywood needs is an escape from a failure of imagination.

reallydebl.bsky.social5

Nope, No, Nuh uh No need to remake perfection

Valerie5

I swear to God of he casts Jared Leto.....

NoneOfThisIsNormal4

There is only one Snake Plissken.

alfred bestington4

yes, you speak for me. Why bother? EFNY exists just fine as a John Carpenter classic and needs no updating whatsoever. I, fact, the grit and grime of that film could not not be replicated in the sterilized realm of modern filmmaking.

Dag Radman 🇨🇦4

So we have to wait for the Director's Cut for it to make sense and even then it will suck?

Martin Delaney 🐈‍⬛🎹🧟‍♂️📸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✍🏻3

Carpenter and Russell are still here. Let them do it...or nobody does it.

Gurney Halleck and his 9-foot Balliset3

Lol "reimagining." As in: imagine this movie but made by a tone deaf superficial chud

Suza272

I don’t know who he is but the first escape from NY can’t be improved!

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside2

When they call it “reimagining”, it implies they have an imagination to begin with … which is hardly the case. If they did, there’d be some original thought and ideas. Instead we get a sad retread of the original, without the good stuff and chock full of bits everyone else currently is trying.

Shu Mookerjee2

Could be worse. It could be J.J. Abrams. But seriously...no.

bobthefrog.bsky.social2

Like Tiny Tim doing a cover of foo fighters

sauralippa.bsky.social2

We’ve got to the point where there’s not much originality coming out of Hollywood. Sad.

RW-One2

Tired of this remake shit. Do something original!

Xecryo2

Tell him he has to finish his bad Star Wars knockoff before he gets to use any new IPs.

The Beethoven Group2

They need to stop with this copying. Like get an original idea. The original is perfect.

Aaron2

Actually, I like him for this. The campy action is definitely in his wheel house.

𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲 | 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝘆𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 & 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽.2

It’ll be epic… epically tedious, expensive, and floppish.

Lloyd Dobler2

Who’s gonna play this guy?

Meridian132

Yet another remake I will refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

J Crawford2

Hollywood needs to start supporting original ideas and to stop funding old IP reboots and sequels. Start taking some risks because this shit is getting ridiculous.

Sylvie D. Parris2

When did film studios decide that the best films were repeats of a repeat, remastered into a whole new repeat?

Crazy Squiggy2

Again, a remake no one asked for.

Mr. Wesley2

The only way I go with this is if they cast Kurt's son as a young Pliskin and make it a prequel.

iporze2

In another episode of Remakes we don't need...

aaronaway.bsky.social23

Get ready to be laden with far too much slow motion and biblical imagery that positions snake as some sort of Christ allegory because why not

OG_McDuck10

In related news, I'm set to direct ESCAPE FROM A WORLD IN WHICH ZACK SNYDER IS ALLOWED TO DO THIS.

Traveler Farlander9

Why? Did he see some color or joy in the original that needs to be removed? Is he going to deconstruct a dystopia?

JelaniJones.bsky.social9

Third act reveal that Snake Pliskin's mom is named MARTHA

B. Coul9

I can already see the hate this is gonna get. Oh Zach. It’s a shame you weren’t old enough to make movies when Canon film group was in business. The two of you would’ve fit like game boy and Tetris.

Ben Williams6

John Carpenter is currently digging a giant hole in his garden so he can prematurely roll in it.

Zach6

I really WANT to write this off in advance, but like. One of his better movies was also a remake, so…..?!

SteveEveLibertineDreⒶm5

I will ruin the internet with my anger

delco de leche5

Black and white 4:3 ratio

Seth Masket5

Kid Rock set to perform "Nessun Dorma"

mikeheald.bsky.social4

I’d love a NEW ‘Escape from’ story, maybe even a little (LITTLE) cameo from Snake himself, but a remake? Come on now, some things can just be, they don’t need another round.

James4

Oh for fuck sakes. This is an alltimer movie for me. Please do not recast Snake Plisken, create a new character. It’s going to be Bautista or Jeffery Dean Morgan and they are cool and all, but they ain’t Kurt Russell.

artmillions.bsky.social4

Awful choice. Just leave a perfect movie alone.

Efe 4

Two questions: 1) WHY? 2) Why Snyder????

Nick... (still a hermit)3

well theres something I wont ever subject myself to. just... no

madprogressivebass.bsky.social3

But John Carpenter already directed a remake of "Escape From New York"

Kid Vanguard3

If you are remaking a film you have to believe you are making it better because otherwise why do it at all. Sometimes the source material has a good concept and bad execution. The fucking balls on Snyder to think he could improve escape from New York. It’s offensive to Carpenter.

Patrick Brennan3

yet another flashy, shitty remake of a better movie

Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author2

Y'all need to relax. There's nothing inherently wrong with remakes, just like there's nothing wrong with adaptations, sequels, prequels, or expanded universes. Every generation gets to take a crack at what came before, just like everyone gets to try their hand at Hamlet.

AgentCooper2

I mean you could just watch the real one and actually feel something

Author RJ Wheatley2

Please, for the love of God, just go to a fucking library. Read a book. Any book. Just find something that you can make into a movie that everyone hasn't seen a million times before.

Straw Hat2

The internet once again showing they have a very weird and unhealthy derangement towards this dude. Almost makes you realize the toxicity was never from the normal folks who liked his movies and just mostly went about there day initially before getting aggressive

Sanpauli2

I think his aesthetics fit perfect with that universe. I'm in

sneakypetehill.bsky.social2

The OG is a buck forty. This remake will border on three hours of slow motion bullshit & on-the-nose music drops...

veronica3

i am going to guess new york will look very blue and that snake pilskin will be a God

X2

He's going to have tall close-up shots of Snake mugging and posing with a gun in slow-mo with washed out color for like half of the movie.

🚫🧊 Yeensywingsy 🏖️🔞4

@hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp Can you stop this somehow?

Bondforged Osha 🏳️‍⚧️3

Never make anything new, always make sequels of sequels or remake a movie that didn't need a remake, originality is dead.

sovereignkain.bsky.social2

Full of lens flair, mediocre script, over the dramatic acting and scenery, and probably Jared Leto….

Greg2

Get James Gunn to write the screenplay and this could be his first good movie since dawn of the dead.

Fitzy5

I think he’d probably be better off with Ghosts of Mars or Vampires

SoCalDayve3

I want Zack Snyder's "Escape from L.A." or nothing.

Mo3

My problem with remaking Escape From New York is that it makes no sense today. NYC isn’t crime ridden the way it was in 81 and the days of Times Square being grimy w/ peep shows is a distant memory. It would be like making Escape From Epcot, where they converted Disney World into an open air prison

mattbird2

I can see him doing alright by Assault on Precinct 13, so there's at least one better option.

Ed Burmila2

That movie honestly is worse with every re-watch and each time I am somehow surprised to find that Lee Van Cleef is in it.

Sebastian Fawkes2

All I'll say is; I just Hope He learns from some of His Mistakes with 'Rebel Moon', including Hopefully Not Overkilling It with the Slow-Motion

Dutchie2

Because what EfNY needs is to be bleaker. And slow-motion-ier 🙄

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haha haha haha haha haha haha haha this is joke right? right?

Paranoid Android 🤖2

Enough with the stupid remakes

Greg8

His last good movie was a remake, but it was also like 22 years ago so this is probably going to suck.

Insert Spooky Name Here6

Absolutely abysmal choice. I wouldn't object as much if he was just directing, but he is NOT a good writer.

pob5

How do you say no but more so?

e-mart3

John Carpenter needs to put a stop to this.

Kitty Litterature3

Honestly, it'll probably be fine. There's 0 nuance or subtlety in Escape from New York. He'll crush it. It'll be an exciting nonsensical tearthrough of some old IP. Whatever.

Dr.Butcher M.D., Medical Deviate2

Absolutely fuck all of this.

Alex2

No. Can Carpenter say something? Or turn up on a doorstep silently glaring. Please.

PG (pretty good)5

Snyder is all spectacle and absolutely no story so likely he will miss the plot when it comes to what inspired Carpenter.

The Big Z3

That's definitely what everyone says about John Carpenter's "Escape from New York", it's not down and dirty enough. www.tumblr.com/movieasshole...

Tim3

So I’m reading its gonna suck and the fanboys will all go on about how its better than the original

Jason Wilson 🇺🇦2

The only way Snyder could make Escape from New York any more "down and dirty" than the original is if he smeared excrement on the lens. I guess if he's his own cinematographer again perhaps that would improve it?

ampallanguk.bsky.social2

Can he not come up with something original? I'm bored of his fucking "I'll make this not woke" takes on old non-woke IP all the fucking time. Just fuck off and think of some new ideas you cunt.